Another option might be a Celeron mobo. Soyo makes good boards and I found
this one online.
SOYO SY-7SBB Socket 370 AT Motherboard Supports Intel Celeron (300A-500)MHZ
66Mhz FSB (Front Side Bus). SIS 600 CHIPSET. 1 AGP, 3 x 32-bit PCI and 2 x
16-bit ISA slots. Supports 256 MB with SDRAM. 3 x 168-pin DIMM slots.
Award BIOS with green, PnP, Fast I/O.
I found it in this address:
www.onlinepcoutlet.com
Good luck!
At 06:01 PM 04/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi PC-Folks;
>
>It's been a while since my last post, "Computer not Waking Up", where I
>received advices that the problem was the Power Supply. The end of the
>story was that after being away from the computer for a time, the computer
>magically started working again. Because the two times the problem
>appeared the computer was left turned on for a long time, and because the
>magical resussitations, I'm quite sure that the problem was the P/S. Now
>I'm looking forward to buy a new one.
>
>I didn't wrote the resolution before because after the time away from the
>computer, I have been traveling, and reading my mail bacame difficult.
>Only now that I'm a little more stable in my parents house, I can dowload
>my e-mail with more tranquility.
>
>But this post is not about the P/S, is a question about Mother Boards.
>Unfortunately, I didn't read the many post about this issue that were
>posted in the last weeks. I hope that I'm not repeating a question
>unnecessarily. Here it goes:
>
>My Computer is na old one. A PentiumI 166Mhz. I have 48Mg RAM, two
>36.600bps Modem, a 16bit sound-card and a simple video-card. I have 2
>HDD, one old and the second new. The system is working fine, but it's very
>slow (compared to stronger machines, like PII and PIII). In almost a
>month, I'm going to NY, the final stage in my traveling. There I wanted to
>buy another motherboard+processor to upgrade my system. The questions that
>bother me are:
>1) As I will continue using the old cards (modems, graphics, sound...), is
>there a possibilty of InCompatibility between the (new) mother-board and
>the (old) 'daughter'-boards? I mean, maybe the old cards are designed to a
>specific architecture...
>2) "As the case may be" (in words of ************), my old case, in spite
>of being a very bad designed one, I'' not thinking of changing it by now.
>My question: can the new mother-board be incompatible (not to fit) in my
>case?
>3) Does somebody recommend a specific MoBo? I want it to work with a
>PentiumIII processor (maybe 450Mhz or higher). It doesn't need to have
>things OnBoard, but have to have a lot of slots and this kind of things.
>The price isn't a big issue.
>Thank you again for any advice, reply, recommendation, web-site and so
>on... And sorry for the lenght of the post!
>
>Thanks Again;
> Sami Garzon :)
>
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